1.15.2010

Welcome blog hoppers!!

Welcome to the first ever Cookin' up Creations Winter Wonderland of Embellishments Blog Hop! Cookin' up Creations has LOTS of generous embellishment sponsors this month so what a great idea to help get the juices flowing with embellishment related challenges, questions and tutorials! You know the routine...Hop along to the 12 different blogs. If a blog requires you to complete a challenge, then please upload your completed challenge into the Embellishment Blog Hop Album before the end of the Blog Hop on January 22nd, 2010. All participating "blog hoppers" must be registered members in the gallery. The Cookin' up Creations blog was your 1st stop and I am the second stop. Let's get busy! :-)

This "layout" will be going into a shadow box as a gift for a friend. The photos are of his daughter who is 8 years old and has Downs Syndrome. She's very high functioning and loves to beat me at bowling and golf on the Wii. I've secretly been practicing so that maybe one of these days, I can beat her. I know, how sick is that, right? I'm so competitive. LOL

Anyway, I am very happy with the paper rose I made. You can find the excellent tutorial HERE. (no need to reinvent the wheel since Theresa did an outstanding job! Thanks Theresa!) I challenge you to make a paper rose and link back here to your creation so we can see! And don't forget to upload it to the gallery to be eligible for a chance to win the grand prize!

After you have visited all the blogs and made a comment on each one, be sure to go back to the Cookin' up Creations Blog and post when you are finished. Thanks for hopping by! Now it's time to hop on over to visit Amy!

Your rose tutorial was perfect and many gorgeous roses were created from it! I sort of ran out of time to do the challenges but this is one that I plan to do later... Also Suzanne, your stunning layout that you created for a gift really touched my heart! Looking at the beautiful little girl that you so lovingly created a layout about brought back so many memories of my only sister who also had Down Syndrome. How amazing of you to make something so beautiful for a friend, I know without a doubt that he will treasure this.